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Intellectual Disability and Vietnam

Posted onNovember 13, 2017February 7, 2019 By David Perry

This is an incredible article on, as they were called at the time, “McNamara’s Morons,” people with intellectual disabilities drafted into the Vietnam War. One morning in the summer of 1967, I was among about 100 men at the Armed Forces induction center in Nashville. It was the height of the Vietnam War, and I … Continue ReadingIntellectual Disability and Vietnam

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"[Although] One board member was quick to assert he wasn't "against teaching the Holocaust," they apparently couldn't allow it to be taught in a way that included profanity and nudity -- in other words, in a way that conveys its dehumanizing reality. The same board member said, "[Maus] shows people hanging, it shows them killing kids, why does the educational system promote this kind of stuff, it is not wise or healthy."

But this betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what education is. To ban "Maus" for being an uncomfortable read is, in fact, to be against teaching the Holocaust, regardless of the school board member's protests to the contrary.

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David Perry shares his first time reading Art Spiegelman's graphic novel 'Maus' as a teenager, explaining why the discomfort it caused him was part of a deep learning experience. That's why a recent move in Tennessee to ban the book is so chilling, he argues: To outlaw this book is to outlaw good te...
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"Such is man's triumph. He is weaker than other animals, unable to hibernate or migrate, and the prey of every storm, but he has a mind. Time has no reality to him, and the grave....no total triumph."

(by my grandad, written in '78)

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